I Have To Do This!!!

Ok, time is going by way too fast. I remember telling myself all the way back in January that I wanted to be at my goal weight by Christmas of this year. Well, it's more than half way through the year and I'm still at my start weight!!...well 10 lbs are gone, but still!! I haven't tried!!

So, I have a new plan of action and I need to do it NO MATTER WHAT!!! I'm sick of being fat and I'm sick of looking and feeling fat!! My new plan of action is to wake up everyday at 8:00 am..(that's so early for me!) and eat breakfast then go to the gym. NO MORE EXCUSES!! I have to get fit and trim for my student teaching. I want to like myself and right now, I'm getting off track so much that when I lay down I feel a double chin again! I am not fitting very nicely into my jeans anymore and I know I'm pms'ing so I'm bloated, but still! I need to stay within my calories, even on my work days, and I need to work out.

I feel that once the end of September arrives and school begins again, I'll have 3 night classes and a Saturday morning class so I have to start some type of pattern now to put into place so I'll be set for when it comes. Since I work nights, I need to get used to working out in the mornings, instead of sleeping in...*tear*...so I can finally get this weight off of me!

With that said, I have a few goals I put into play:

• drink more water (up to 8 glasses)
  
• meaning I have to carry around a water bottle that labels 24 oz or whatever
• work out 3x a week at Fitness U.S.A.
• mornings or weeknights if I open (mon-wed-fri)
• stay under my calorie amount everyday
• no more saying, oh it's only a few calories, so I really have to put my meals together well
• no fast food
• unless it's Subway :)
• 2 diet pepsi's a day
• I drink more than that so I have to start cutting back
• Blog everyday to post my feelings
• use Sparkpeople to track my calories
• use a binder to track my progress to print out their sheets

I really need to stick to these guidelines if I'm going to successfully lose weight. With Sparkpeople, I have to have 90 minutes of cardio a week and if I do that for 30 min mon wed fri, then I'll be just fine. If that means 15 on the elliptical and 15 on the bike, then I'll do that because I know I'm gonna be sweating so bad my first week there!!

Please wish me luck and I need to do this.....

NO MORE EXCUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shopping With Randy

Check out what I came across while shopping today at Great Lakes Crossing.....Can you believe that?!?! It's protein to go!! wow...anywho.....

I also came across these cute little Key Shirts :)

Anywho..that was my day shopping :)

Much Better Today

I did fantastic today :) Even though I had to work, I did awesome!

I woke up feeling sooooooo sick though today. I felt horrible. I had a horrible night sweat and I woke up with a horrible stomach ache. I knew it was all from the food I ate yesterday. Oh well, yesterday is over with and today was a whole new day.

I had my usual breakfast, Subway for lunch, and work food for dinner. Then I had cereal after work as my late evening snack.

Anywho, I'm tracking it all on the daily plate and it feels good to know I'm really doing this :) I was under calories today too :) Go me!

Well, tomorrow, I have to go to Baker and do my financial aid stuff, then Randy and I are going to Great Lakes Crossing (mall) to hang out. Gonna be so much fun :) And, I just got paid so can we say SHOPPING!! :) whoo hoo :)

Hope you all are having a wonderful week...:)

Confused

Okay, I was reading on the daily plate and one user recommended this as a good way to find out your maintenance calories: The Harris Benedict Equation.

Mine comes out to 1979.4 for maintenance and 1479.4 to lose 1 lb a week. It makes total sense to me :) The daily plate says that's for 2 lbs a week, but I know it's for 1 lb a week. I'm going to try this and see how it goes.

I really don't exercise and I know that I should, but I've been so lazy this summer. I'm usually not this lazy. I think I'm being lazy because I'm normally doing homework and doing things while I'm in school so now that I don't have school for one quarter in 4 years, I'm allowed to be lazy and have fun!! lol I think that's why my mindset is like it is. That's not a bad thing though because I want to have fun. Next summer is going to be nothing but moving and saying goodbye to everyone :(

I can't wait!! lol :) I posted a new video!!!

I did it!

I gave myself a week with Weight Watchers to see if this is going to work and the result was......

a gain of 0.5 lb

WTF!

I drank a lot of water so I think I'm retaining water, but I have come to the conclusion that every single day that I was "on plan", I felt hungry!! I don't want to feel hungry while trying to lose weight. I want to feel satisfied and healthy. When I woke up every day, I felt great though. I felt as if I was light, but when I would step on the scale I noticed that I was gaining :( How pathetic is that.

My week long WW try failed me. To me, I look at that and say, "well then, I could have really given into my temptations if I knew I was going to gain." I mean, my parents went to the Dairy Queen up the street last night and asked me if I wanted anything and I said NO! I really thought I was losing weight.

Oh, and with my work not having a microwave (it pisses me off) it makes it ten times harder to not eat my work food. I mean, with a microwave, I could bring in my box meal and eat that, but NOOOO, that won't ever happen...:(

I guess with my lifestyle now and the way things are in my life at the moment, I feel like I'm failing at WW. I'm gonna try calorie counting AGAIN...using the Daily Plate because I was very successful while using that when I first started in January :)

Here's to Week 2 doing something different.

BBQ

I woke up today knowing that the BBQ would be bad because I would have no idea how many points is in the cheeseburger I would be eating or the chips and stuff so....I ate a 3 pt breakfast, a 2 pt snack, and then the BBQ. I ate a cheeseburger ( so good ) and fruit with some fruit dipping stuff, some chips, and a lot of cookies, but they were cut in half so I ate them half at a time lol. I ate too many cookies!!!

But other than that, I drank some water, had 1/2 glass of diet pepsi...I'm trying not to drink any at all. So, I'm sure I used up all my flex points but I get new ones starting Monday :) Hopefully a pound will come off by Monday and tomorrow I'll stay right on plan.

Here's to tomorrow :)

Staying Motivated

So, Weight Watchers has been a little tough for me lately because I'm used to eating more than what I eat now lol..I guess that's why it's a diet right? Well, excuse me...lifestyle change lol.

• Breakfast
• 2 eggbeater omelet w/ cheese: 2 pts
• slice of toast: 1 pt
• 1/2 banana: 0 pts
• Lunch
• Rice and Beans meal: 6 pts
• light sour cream: 1 pt
• cheese: 1 pt
• Snack
• Fiber One bar: 2 pts
• Dinner
• Taco Bell Bean Burrito: 7 pts
• Snack
• 2 raisin and nut cookies: 6 pts (I'm so guessing here...I have no idea!)
• Total: 26 pts/26 pts
• Weekly left: 21 pts

Oh, and as I was trying to motivate myself to keep going and not eat, I came across this youtuber. She is awesome and embarking on the same journey I am with Weight Watchers. Please subscribe to her :) lol. She is helping me stay motivated and want to lose the weight. I can't wait to see her transform!

Here's to tomorrow!! I have a BBQ to go to tomorrow around 4 pm so I might use up the rest of my points...not sure...that's what they are there for right!! :) Good night! :)